Paul Kriwaczek: Yiddish Civilisation

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Paul Kriwaczek begins this illuminating and immensely pleasurable chronicle of Yiddish civilization during the Roman empire, when Jewish culture first spread to Europe. We see the burgeoning exile population disperse, as its notable diplomats, artists and thinkers make their mark in far-flung cities and found a self-governing Yiddish world. By its late-medieval heyday, this economically successful, intellectually adventurous, and self-aware society stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Kriwaczek traces, too, the slow decline of Yiddish culture in Europe and Russia, and highlights fresh offshoots in the New World.Combining family anecdote, travelogue, original research, and a keen understanding of Yiddish art and literature, Kriwaczek gives us an exceptional portrait of a culture which, though nearly extinguished, has an influential radiance still.

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Paul Kriwaczek

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Maps

Introduction

1 Bist a Yid?
Roots schmoots!
Nostalgie de la boue

2 The Jews of Rome
A basket and a truss of hay

3 From the Mediterranean to the Baltic
As strange as a circumcised unicorn
Sennan and zippan

4 The Remaking of Western Europe
Charles’s elephant
New borders, new allegiances
Drang nach osten

5 At the Crossroads
In every castle a king
A blessing upon mieszko, king of poland

6 The New Yiddish World
The language
The literature
The religion
The scholarly tradition

7 Political Consolidation
Landowners, merchants, artisans, servants
At the jewish inn

8 The Reformation
Hussites
Luther
Now a miracle happened

9 The Yiddish Renaissance
Cracow
Prague
Dovid gans

10 Wide Horizons
Wealth and honour
The great divide

11 The Deluge
The cossacks
Poverty and disgrace

12 Decline . . .
Who permits the forbidden
The holy creed of edom
The famous ba’al shem tov,
May his light long shine
Oppose them strongly

13 . . . and Fall
The “jewish problem”
Words that fall on us like lashes
Shakespearean tragedy

14 A Winter Flowering
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2006
Fachbereich:	Regionalgeschichte
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781400033775
ISBN-10:	1400033772
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Kriwaczek, Paul
Hersteller:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	203 x 132 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Paul Kriwaczek
Erscheinungsdatum:	31.10.2006
Gewicht:	0,445 kg